Staff Picks Book Reviews
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Book Review by Emily Porter
A raw and honest memoir, detailing how this amazing woman pulled herself through a horrific upbringing that no one should have to brave, and her healing journey after being diagnosed with C-PTSD, What My Bones Know brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart reading how Foo triumphed after trauma.
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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
The pandemic has made clear how we can’t take for granted the moments we spend in the company of others. The Art of Gathering is, at its heart, a rallying cry for honoring the people we love and making those fleeting moments truly special.
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You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Julissa Arce has written an impassioned, well-structured, and empowering introduction to the web of issues in America that are preventing so many of its inhabitants from achieving the freedom and equality that the country advertises.
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I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To : Stories
Book Review by Emily Porter
This small and powerful collection shows that the past remains present, and that we must fully recognize and reconcile with its influence on the present.
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Don't Cry for Me: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
There is literature that reaches into your soul and shifts something within you, and this book is one of them. This book is going to become a necessary addition on the classics shelf.
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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg
Bess Kalb’s debut memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, is a delightfully honest and heartfelt homage to the life and legacy of her beloved grandmother, Bobby.
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Olga Dies Dreaming
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel is as much romantic comedy as it is a search for a balanced personal and political manifesto.
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How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
Beginning in 2030 and spanning generations beyond, Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark tells the story of humanity trying to live in a world desecrated by an Arctic plague that spreads through contaminated water, changing the world as we know it.
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Still Life: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
Sarah Winman, again, graces us with her storytelling, adorning the lives of people who have never been, yet somehow leave an impression on our hearts and minds as if they were close personal friends.
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The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Steve Hamm joined a project that aimed to bring cutting-edge technologies and concepts to bear on the problem of climate change, and discovered the most powerful tool was that of human connection.
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